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Earthquake Magnitude 5.3 - 6km SE of Mormanno, Italy

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© USGS
Event Time:
2012-10-25 23:05:26 UTC

Location:
39.855°N 16.044°E depth=3.8km (2.4mi)

Nearby Cities:
6km (4mi) SE of Mormanno, Italy
14km (9mi) WNW of Castrovillari, Italy
21km (13mi) ENE of Scalea, Italy
24km (15mi) WNW of Cassano al Ionio, Italy
358km (222mi) WSW of Tirana, Albania

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One dead as 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits southern Italy

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The quake struck the province of Cosenza in the southern region of Calabria in Italy at 3.15am (0115 GMT), when most people were asleep in bed
One person has died and buildings were damaged after a powerful, 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit southern Italy in the middle of the night on Friday. An 84-year-old man died of a heart attack when the quake struck the province of Cosenza in the southern region of Calabria, Italy.The quake struck at 3.15am (0115 GMT), when most people were asleep in bed. Many people spent the rest of the night outdoors, afraid to return to their homes."I got up, it was the middle of the night, and ran out into the street. Outside there were lots of people and there was rubble all over the ground," Vincenzo Alberti, who lives in Mormanno, told Corriere della Sera.A hospital in the small town of Mormanno was evacuated after cracks emerged and many homes were damaged.

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Earthquake Magnitude 5.7 - 18km NNE of Siglufjordur, Iceland

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Event Time
2012-10-21 01:25:22 UTC+00:00 at epicenter

Location
66.296°N 18.685°W depth=9.9km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
18km (11mi) NNE of Siglufjordur, Iceland
73km (45mi) NNW of Akureyri, Iceland
283km (176mi) NNE of Reykjavik, Iceland
286km (178mi) NNE of Kopavogur, Iceland
291km (181mi) NNE of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland

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After series of tremor, Icelandic authorities warn people in the north of the island on Thursday to prepare for a possible big earthquake

Icelandic authorities warned people in the north of the island on Thursday to prepare for a possible big earthquake after the biggest tremors in the area for 20 years. The north Atlantic island, where almost 320,000 people live, is a hotspot of volcanic and seismic activity as it straddles a fault in the earth's surface.

The Civil Protection Department said in a statement that recent small quakes in an area under the sea about 20 km (12 miles) off the north of Iceland had prompted it to issue a warning to local people. It said such shocks, one of which was a magnitude 5.6, often led to stronger quakes. Warnings were issued when there were grounds to expect a natural or manmade event that could threaten health and human safety, it added.

"People are anxious because they don't know what might happen," said Amundi Gunnarsson, chief of the fire brigade in Fjallabyggd, one of the small towns in the area, and a member of the Civil Protection Department. "At the same time, life goes on as usual. People are going to work and children are going to school, but everyone is on alert," he told Reuters by telephone.

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Sharp tremor recorded by USGS monitors at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish

A sharp tremor was recorded by USGS monitors just after 9 p.m. Wednesday at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish. The giant sinkhole appeared in August near the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas.The Assumption Parish Police Jury says the tremor was large enough that the body wave phases could easily be identified. A body wave travels through the interior of the earth.
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© Assumption Office of Emergency Preparedness
The preliminary location of the tremor was just SE of Oxy #3 cavern at a depth of 500m. There is no additional information specific to this seismic activity at this time. The sinkhole is now about four acres in size. Residents were forced from their homes on August third, two months after the bayous started bubbling. They are still evacuated from their homes.

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Sinkhole engineer: Little can be done if cavern is fractured


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'Loud blasts heard' - Earthquake strikes Viet Nam

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© Tuoi TreThousands of residents rushed out from their houses when the 4.6 degree quake hit Bac Tra My District in Quang Nam Province last night
An earthquake, the strongest since 1957, occurred last night in Quang Nam Province's Bac Tra My District, where the Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant is located, panicking thousands of local residents.

A series of tremors measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale broke out in the district at 9:42 pm Monday and lasted for about three seconds, said Le Van Tuan, chief of the district People's Committee's Secretariat.

Thousands of locals rushed out of their houses in panic after they heard loud blasts and felt the ground shaking, houses' walls cracking, and things inside the houses falling, Tuan said.
"Many items on a table in my house fell down to the floor and my children cried and screamed when hearing explosions that sounded like the sounds of bombings," he said.

Comment: This earthquake, or whatever it was, does not show up on USGS. The recent quakes may be reservoir induced. There was a similar earthquake September 4th, 2012, that also wasn't registered on USGS. Of course, this in itself isn't proof that there wasn't an earthquake - nor can it be ruled out that some type of 'overhead activity' could have caused the loud explosions.


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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.6 - NE of Hojancha, Costa Rica

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Event Time
2012-10-24 00:45:36 UTC
2012-10-23 18:45:36 UTC-06:00 at epicenter

Location
10.118°N 85.348°W depth=39.5km (24.5mi)

Nearby Cities
10km (6mi) NE of Hojancha, Costa Rica
11km (7mi) ESE of Nicoya, Costa Rica
30km (19mi) ESE of Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
44km (27mi) SW of Canas, Costa Rica
140km (87mi) W of San Jose, Costa Rica

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - WNW of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia

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Event Time
2012-10-23 09:39:31 UTC
2012-10-23 20:39:31 UTC+11:00 at epicenter

Location
22.316°S 171.675°E depth=127.0km (78.9mi)

Nearby Cities
39km (24mi) WNW of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia
482km (300mi) ESE of We, New Caledonia
524km (326mi) E of Mont-Dore, New Caledonia
537km (334mi) E of Noumea, New Caledonia
538km (334mi) E of Dumbea, New Caledonia

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San Andreas fault line produced 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Central California

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California's central valley was jiggled by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake Sunday, days after the anniversary of the big Bay Area quake of 1987, seismologists said. Sunday's shaker occurred shortly before midnight PDT and was centered outside King City, about 160 miles south-southeast of Sacramento, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no reports of damage or injury in the rural area.

The USGS said the quake occurred along California's famed San Andreas Fault, which triggered the famed 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Loma Prieta quake in Oct. 17, 1989, which killed 64 people and caused significant damage in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Seismologists said the fault in the King City area has been largely a mystery. "The fault in this region is locked, exhibiting no creep at the surface and generating very few microearthquakes that are associated with minor slipping at depth," the USGS said.

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Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction'

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The relatively modest Magnitude 5.1 quake resulted in extensive damage and nine deaths
Scientists studying the fault beneath the Spanish city of Lorca say that groundwater removal may be implicated in a deadly 2011 earthquake there.

Detailed surface maps from satellite studies allowed them to infer which parts of the ground moved where.

They report in Nature Geoscience that those shifts correlate with locations where water has been drained for years.

The study highlights how human activity such as drainage or borehole drilling can have far-reaching seismic effects.